quitting the commons for good

Starmer quits the Commons eight weeks after quitting No 10

Eleven years as MP for Holborn and St Pancras, ended with a statement that opens 'I've had time to reflect'.

he's not doing the backbench-elder-statesman thing. sitting behind burnham for three years would be a nightly televised reminder that he lost the room — better to leave the building than be furniture in it.

new — resignation statement filed today